Online Learning Update

March 3, 2021

Higher education needs to develop better crisis responses

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:10 am

Stefania Giannini and Kristin Vinje, University World News
The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that no education system is resilient to crisis. And even if the digital revolution has transformed the higher education system more profoundly than anything else in the past decades, the pandemic has been no less hard-hitting. Its economic impact alone could force up to seven million students to drop out. International students have been stranded. In every country, students are struggling with access to remote learning, social isolation and economic strife. The COVID-19 pandemic has amplified fragilities and inequalities across digital, gender, social and educational lines, especially in regions already affected by conflict.

https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20210211090640737

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